Timeline (all times are Central Standard Time): In the morning, President Kennedy delivers a speech at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.

11:37 am - Air Force One arrives at Dallas' Love Field with President and Mrs. Kennedy and Governor and Mrs. John B. Connally Jr. of Texas aboard. Vice-president Lyndon Johnson and his wife arrive aboard a separate plane. It is a campaign trip for the 1964 election.

During the 10-mile tour of Dallas the President and Mrs. Kennedy and the Governor and Mrs. Connally ride in an open convertible limousine. The motorcade is on the way to the Trade Mart where the president is to speak at a sold-out luncheon.

12:30 pm - As the motorcade nears Dealey Plaza, shots are fired from a 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.

President Kennedy and Gov. Connally are both wounded and rushed to Parkland Hospital.

Wire services report three shots were fired as the motorcade passed under the Stemmons Freeway. Two bullets hit the president and one hit the governor.

Emergency efforts by Drs. Malcolm Perry, Kemp Clark and others are unsuccessful at reviving the president. Governor Connally's injuries are critical but not fatal. From one bullet he sustains three broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken wrist. The bullet finally lodged in his left thigh.

1:07 pm - News of the shooting causes the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading after an $11 million flood of sell orders.

2:15 pm - Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine, is arrested in the back of a movie theater where he fled after killing Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippit.

2:39 pm - Lyndon Johnson is sworn-in on the runway of Love Field aboard Air Force One. Federal judge Sarah T. Hughes, of the Northern District of Texas, administers the oath of office. Witnesses include the president's widow and the Vice-president's wife.

6:00 pm EST - Air Force One arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. The flag-draped coffin is taken to the East Room of the White House.

7:15 pm - Oswald is arraigned for the murder of Officer Tippit.

November 23, 1963 1:30 am - Oswald is arraigned for the murder of the president.

November 22-25, 1963 - Major television and radio networks cancel entertainment and commercials.

Many theaters, stores, businesses, including the stock exchanges and government offices are closed through November 25th.

November 23, 1963 - President Johnson designates November 25th as a day of national mourning.

November 24, 1963 - As Oswald is being transferred from the Dallas city jail to the county jail, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots and kills him. The shooting is, inadvertently, shown live on TV. Jack Ruby is immediately arrested and charged with murder.

November 23-25, 1963 - President Kennedy's flag-draped casket lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda.

November 25, 1963 - President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors and representatives from more than 90 countries in attendance.

November 29, 1963 - President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Commonly called the Warren Commission, its purpose is to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

September 24, 1964 - The Warren Report is released with conclusions that THREE SHOTS were fired by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the sixth floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository.